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5. Conceptions of Situational Demography In all organizations, there are
conceptions of situational demography. These conceptions concern the categories of individuals present, and where they should be present, and
where they

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tions will not be directed to the organization as a whole but at self and/or
the micro encounter.
If other emotions like anger, fury, sadness, and alienation are aroused
when expectations are not realized, then individuals are

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become ossified in how they operate. Just how adverse to change an organization becomes, however, is also influenced by key environmental conditions
(Hannan and Freeman 1984).
External Environments and Inertial Dynamics. One p

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If, however, there is consolidation of parameters of categoric-unit
members with access to organizations in the first place and/or the full range
of locations in their divisions of labor, the discrimination inevitably i

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feel comfortable. If discomfort persists, then the negative emotions aroused
can create a dysfunctional micro-level environment.
Once inside the boundaries of an organization, understanding the meanings of the internal

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need to be expanded. Conflict-induced change can also work in a more
conservative way, as was the case after the Iranian revolution in the 1970s.
In this case, the assumption of control of polity by religious leaders ch

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become part of the micro culture and regulate subsequent actions of individuals in encounters. The same is true with situational ecology and demography; these too establish expectation states that are enshrined in belie

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markets and the symbolic medium of money (plus the ideologies built
around this symbolic medium) circulate to domains, new patterns of
exchange among symbolic media occur and new meta-ideologies are
generated, all of which inc

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domination, organizational change can occur when dominant organizations
within a domainfor example, economy, polity, religion, and lawalter
their structure and culture, thereby forcing all subordinate organizations to
c

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most powerful of these pressures are external, coming from the fields of an
organization as well as its resource niche or niches that are generated by
structural and cultural fields.
Macro-structural Environments of Organizati